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Yoko Yokouchi is affiliated with the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan. Their research primarily addresses areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on atmospheric processes.

The specific subfields of study for Yokouchi include Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Within these areas, the main topics of their work encompass Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols.

Yokouchi's publication record includes contributions to the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, which is among the frequent venues for their research dissemination.

A sample of their scholarly output is:

  • A Synthesis Inversion to Constrain Global Emissions of Two Very Short Lived Chlorocarbons: Dichloromethane, and Perchloroethylene, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Tom Claxton
  • Ryan Hossaini
  • Chris Wilson
  • S. A. Montzka
  • Martyn P. Chipperfield

Best Publications

  • Measurements of C2‐C6 hydrocarbons during the Polar Sunrise1992 Experiment: Evidence for Cl atom and Br atom chemistry

    B. T. Jobson;H. Niki;Y. Yokouchi;J. Bottenheim

  • History of chemically and radiatively important atmospheric gases from the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE)

    Ronald G. Prinn;Ray F. Weiss;Jgor Arduini;Tim Arnold

  • An analytical inversion method for determining regional and global emissions of greenhouse gases: Sensitivity studies and application to halocarbons

    A. Stohl;P. Seibert;J. Arduini;S. Eckhardt

  • Increase in CFC-11 emissions from eastern China based on atmospheric observations.

    M. Rigby;S. Park;T. Saito;L. M. Western

  • Urban photochemistry in central Tokyo 1. Observed and modeled OH and HO2 radical concentrations during the winter and summer of 2004

    Yugo Kanaya;Renqiu Cao;Hajime Akimoto;Masato Fukuda

  • Strong emission of methyl chloride from tropical plants

    Yoko Yokouchi;Masumi Ikeda;Masumi Ikeda;Yoko Inuzuka;Tomohisa Yukawa

  • A strong source of methyl chloride to the atmosphere from tropical coastal land.

    Y. Yokouchi;Y. Noijiri;L. A. Barrie;D. Toom-Sauntry

  • AEROSOLS FORMED FROM THE CHEMICAL REACTION OF MONOTERPENES AND OZONE

    Y. Yokouchi;Y. Ambe

  • Rapid increase in ozone-depleting chloroform emissions from China

    Xuekun Fang;Sunyoung Park;Takuya Saito;Rachel Tunnicliffe

  • Photochemical formation of particulate dicarboxylic acids under long-range transport in central Japan

    Hikaru Satsumabayashi;Hidemi Kurita;Yoko Yokouchi;Hiromasa Ueda

  • Global sea-to-air flux climatology for bromoform, dibromomethane and methyl iodide

    Franziska Ziska;Birgit Quack;K. Abrahamsson;S. D. Archer

  • Comparison of air pollutant emissions among mega-cities

    David D. Parrish;William C. Kuster;Min Shao;Yoko Yokouchi

  • Hydrochlorofluorocarbon and hydrofluorocarbon emissions in East Asia determined by inverse modeling

    Andreas Stohl;Jooil Kim;Shanlan Li;Simon O'Doherty

  • Characterization of polar organics in airborne particulate matter

    Y. Yokouchi;Y. Ambe

  • Isoprene in the marine boundary layer (southeast Asian Sea, eastern Indian Ocean, and Southern Ocean): Comparison with dimethyl sulfide and bromoform

    Yoko Yokouchi;Hong Jun Li;Hong Jun Li;Toshinobu Machida;Shuji Aoki

  • High frequency measurements of HFCs at a remote site in east Asia and their implications for Chinese emissions

    Y. Yokouchi;S. Taguchi;T. Saito;Y. Tohjima

  • Factors Affecting the Emission of Monoterpenes from Red Pine (Pinus densiflora)

    Yoko Yokouchi;Yoshinari Ambe

  • Distribution of methyl iodide, ethyl iodide, bromoform, and dibromomethane over the ocean (east and southeast Asian seas and the western Pacific)

    Y. Yokouchi;H. Mukai;H. Yamamoto;A. Otsuki

  • Serial gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric measurements of some volatile organic compounds in the Arctic atmosphere during the 1992 Polar Sunrise Experiment

    Y. Yokouchi;H. Akimoto;L. A. Barrie;J. W. Bottenheim

  • Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010

    S. A. Montzka;S. Reimann;A. Engel;K. Kruger

  • Reconciling reported and unreported HFC emissions with atmospheric observations

    Mark F. Lunt;Matthew Rigby;Anita L. Ganesan;Alistair J. Manning

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul J. Fraser
Paul J. Fraser Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Ray F. Weiss
Ray F. Weiss University of California, San Diego
Paul B. Krummel
Paul B. Krummel Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Simon O'Doherty
Simon O'Doherty University of Bristol
Martin K. Vollmer
Martin K. Vollmer Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Jens Mühle
Jens Mühle University of California, San Diego
Hitoshi Mukai
Hitoshi Mukai National Institute for Environmental Studies
Stefan Reimann
Stefan Reimann Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Peter Simmonds
Peter Simmonds University of Oxford

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